Sunday, August 24, 2008

So last night I decided, "you know what, I'm tried of being the only person on the planet earth who hasn't seen the Dark Knight (FUN FACT: until last night I was the last person on earth who hadn't seen the Dark Knight), I'm going Imaxin'!" Now remember my last post where I was exalting my own nerd-ness, this is another case of that: the movie started at 7:45, which put it's ending time at about 10:20, upon walking out of the theater I was in a daze, completely blown away by what I had just seen.  I looked up at the marquee and saw the movie was playing again at 11:00 so I said, "that movie was amazing, I'm going to see it again."  That's right, I watched the Dark Knight twice in a row, both times on the Imax screen (given the second time I did get a better seat making it a much different movie going experience!)

Tonight hasn't been quite as interesting, most of my night has been spent drinking Red Stripe and listening to Ken Boothe/Alton Ellis/Byron Lee records, JAMAICAN SKA FTW!!!!!  But it's been a very relaxing evening, I even posted on the HP2 blog (although I forgot to sign in, I'll let you guess which post is mine [hmmmm.....I wonder which it could be?]). Those Jamaican songs are such beautifully crafted pop-songs, memorable melody's, simple yet universal structure, and easily some of the most danceable music on the planet.  

Right now I'm taking a trip down the opposite end of the "ska?" spectrum and listening to the new captain squeegee album, a solid album to be sure.  I sure the term "ska" very very very loosely to describe this one, these guys pretty much did away with the little ska influence they had on their music for this one if favor of a much more progressive rock/punk sound, way hard?

That's all I've got for now I suppose. 

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